A lot of folks in the North East seem to be hearing this. I rang in twice on HFU about it:
"I heard it today! I was at work, on lunch, around 20:10UTC tuning into my own AM1620 Part #15 station, but 10min later came this station playing X-mas tunes obliterating my station. (Not hard to do since my station was over 2 1/2 miles away where any electrical QRM and night DX obliterates it easily.) Huh, only mid-afternoon, and still walked all over AM1620. O.F.W...." Then, "That is the thing weird about this X-mas station, just national Ads and very generic promos, but no actual ID or Promos. To me, it sounds like someone is grabbing a packaged satellite feed, where normally a local station would insert their own Ads, PSA's, Promos, ID's, etc, but it's just the raw satellite feed. It's definitely different, and seems to have a wide area coverage. It's almost as if someone set-up a station, threw on a satellite feed, and just left it that way." What's everyone else hearing on 1620? [
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